UAB’s CERTS is home to the musculoskeletal disorders component of the national program. It is housed within the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, under the direction of Ken Saag, M.D., Jane Knight Lowe Professor of Medicine.

The CERTs program, overseen by AHRQ in partnership with the FDA, was originally authorized by Congress in 1997.

Smita Bhatia, M.D., M.P.H., director of UAB's new Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, explains how cancer treatments can lead to chronic health conditions in later life — and how "survivorship clinics" will help.

Naloxone kits have prevented more than 10,000 deaths from opioid overdose since local distribution programs began in 1996. Now, as deaths from opioid overdose reach an all-time high in the United States, a crowdfunded project from UAB researchers aims to put naloxone in the hands of those at highest risk.

About half of American hospitals have some form of arts programming, usually art or music therapy. Now a growing number of medical centers — UAB Hospital is the first in Alabama — are implementing the more comprehensive AIM model.